Cloud Spanner: Node.js Client

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Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical, relational database service thatoffers transactional consistency at global scale, schemas, SQL (ANSI 2011 with extensions),and automatic, synchronous replication for high availability.

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found inthe CHANGELOG.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the olderGoogle APIs Client Libraries, inClient Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart

Before you begin

  1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
  2. Enable billing for your project.
  3. Enable the Cloud Spanner API.
  4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access theAPI from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install @google-cloud/spanner

Using the client library

// Imports the Google Cloud client libraryconst {Spanner} = require('@google-cloud/spanner');// Creates a clientconst spanner = newSpanner({projectId});// Gets a reference to a Cloud Spanner instance and databaseconst instance = spanner.instance(instanceId);const database = instance.database(databaseId);// The query to executeconst query = {  sql: 'SELECT 1',};// Execute a simple SQL statementconst [rows] = await database.run(query);console.log(`Query: ${rows.length} found.`);rows.forEach(row => console.log(row));

Samples

Samples are in thesamples/ directory. Each sample'sREADME.md has instructions for running its sample.

SampleSource CodeTry it
Backups-cancelsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-create-with-encryption-keysource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-createsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-deletesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-get-database-operationssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-get-operationssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-getsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-restore-with-encryption-keysource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-restoresource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backups-updatesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Backupssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Batchsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
CRUDsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Creates a new database with a specific default leadersource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Database-create-with-encryption-keysource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Database-create-with-version-retention-periodsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Gets the schema definition of an existing databasesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Gets the default leader option of an existing databasesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Updates the default leader of an existing databasesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Datatypessource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
DMLsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Get-commit-statssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Gets the instance config metadata for the configuration nam6source codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Creates a new value-storing indexsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Creates a new indexsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Executes a read-only SQL query using an existing index.source codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Reads data using an existing storing index.source codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Read data using an existing index.source codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Indexingsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Instance-with-processing-unitssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Instancesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Lists all databases on the selected instancesource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Lists all the available instance configs for the selected project.source codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Numeric-add-columnsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Numeric-query-parametersource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Numeric-update-datasource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Queryoptionssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Quickstartsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Sets a request tag for a single querysource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Rpc-prioritysource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Schemasource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Structsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Timestampsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Executes a read/write transaction with transaction and request tagssource codeOpen in Cloud Shell
Transactionsource codeOpen in Cloud Shell

TheCloud Spanner Node.js Client API Reference documentationalso contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow theNode.js release schedule.Libraries are compatible with all currentactive andmaintenance versions ofNode.js.

Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, andcan be installed via npmdist-tags.The dist-tags follow the naming conventionlegacy-(version).

Legacy Node.js versions are supported as a best effort:

  • Legacy versions will not be tested in continuous integration.
  • Some security patches may not be able to be backported.
  • Dependencies will not be kept up-to-date, and features will not be backported.

Legacy tags available

  • legacy-8: install client libraries from this dist-tag for versionscompatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library followsSemantic Versioning.

This library is considered to beGeneral Availability (GA). This means itis stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible waysunless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or withan extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests againstGA librariesare addressed with the highest priority.

More Information:Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See theContributing Guide.

Please note that thisREADME.md, thesamples/README.md,and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including.nycrc andtsconfig.json)are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an editto its template in thisdirectory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

SeeLICENSE

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Last updated 2025-10-30 UTC.